Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population
This work was supported by Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd. and Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd. as part of their consent application. Offshore wind farm developments may impact protected marine mammal populations, requiring appropriate assessment under the EU Habitats Directive. We describe a framework de...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/4774 2024-10-06T13:49:19+00:00 Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population Thompson, P.M. Hastie, G.D. Nedwell, J. Barham, R. Brookes, K.L. Cordes, Line S. Bailey, H. McLean, Nancy University of St Andrews.School of Biology University of St Andrews.Sea Mammal Research Unit 2014-05-13T12:01:03Z 13 1125997 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4774 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.06.005 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880440824&partnerID=8YFLogxK eng eng Environmental Impact Assessment Review 118142580 b456b1dd-6d8e-4503-9a06-526dfdf2aed4 84880440824 Thompson , P M , Hastie , G D , Nedwell , J , Barham , R , Brookes , K L , Cordes , L S , Bailey , H & McLean , N 2013 , ' Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population ' , Environmental Impact Assessment Review , vol. 43 , pp. 73-85 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.06.005 0195-9255 ORCID: /0000-0002-9773-2755/work/54819217 https://hdl.handle.net/10023/4774 doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2013.06.005 http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84880440824&partnerID=8YFLogxK © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited EU habitats directive Appropriate assessment Population consequences Disturbance Offshore wind farm Marine mammal GC Oceanography SDG 14 - Life Below Water GC Journal article 2014 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2013.06.005 2024-09-11T00:10:43Z This work was supported by Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd. and Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd. as part of their consent application. Offshore wind farm developments may impact protected marine mammal populations, requiring appropriate assessment under the EU Habitats Directive. We describe a framework developed to assess population level impacts of disturbance from piling noise on a protected harbour seal population in the vicinity of proposed wind farm developments in NE Scotland. Spatial patterns of seal distribution and received noise levels are integrated with available data on the potential impacts of noise to predict how many individuals are displaced or experience auditory injury. Expert judgement is used to link these impacts to changes in vital rates and applied to population models that compare population changes under baseline and construction scenarios over a 25. year period. We use published data and hypothetical piling scenarios to illustrate how the assessment framework has been used to support environmental assessments, explore the sensitivity of the framework to key assumptions, and discuss its potential application to other populations of marine mammals. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper harbour seal University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Environmental Impact Assessment Review 43 73 85 |
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This work was supported by Moray Offshore Renewables Ltd. and Beatrice Offshore Wind Ltd. as part of their consent application. Offshore wind farm developments may impact protected marine mammal populations, requiring appropriate assessment under the EU Habitats Directive. We describe a framework developed to assess population level impacts of disturbance from piling noise on a protected harbour seal population in the vicinity of proposed wind farm developments in NE Scotland. Spatial patterns of seal distribution and received noise levels are integrated with available data on the potential impacts of noise to predict how many individuals are displaced or experience auditory injury. Expert judgement is used to link these impacts to changes in vital rates and applied to population models that compare population changes under baseline and construction scenarios over a 25. year period. We use published data and hypothetical piling scenarios to illustrate how the assessment framework has been used to support environmental assessments, explore the sensitivity of the framework to key assumptions, and discuss its potential application to other populations of marine mammals. Peer reviewed |
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Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population |
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Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population |
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Framework for assessing impacts of pile-driving noise from offshore wind farm construction on a harbour seal population |
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